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- Disability, Inc. - June 28, 2009
- This is not a joke. Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision that required an Oregon public school district to pay a $5,200 monthly tuition (plus fees) for a...
- Bad Times for Whistle-Blowers - June 23, 2009
- As recent AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin tells the story, when a White House aide called him on June 10, Walpin thought the administration was calling him to...
- Oil and Water Mix in Ecuador - June 21, 2009
- "We certainly recognize that Chevron does not make a sympathetic victim here," company spokesman Kent Robertson told me over the telephone. No lie. In May, "60 Minutes"...
- How to Be a Civil Libertarian - June 18, 2009
- There are no legal grounds for prosecuting Bush administration lawyers who supported the use of enhanced interrogation techniques to thwart planned terrorist attacks, so...
- An Orgy of Indignation - June 16, 2009
- I wish Sarah Palin would just go away. During the 2008 presidential campaign, I wrote about the unfair personal treatment to which the political press corps subjected...
- Armed and Extreme, but Buried in Briefs - June 14, 2009
- After the shooting deaths of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller last month and security guard Stephen T. Johns at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last week, I knew...
- Obama's Centers of Excellence - June 11, 2009
- Last week, White House chief economist Christina Romer told reporters that there are "billion-dollar bills lying on the sidewalk" in America's health care system --...
- S.F. Students Earn Their Stripes - June 7, 2009
- When the San Francisco school board voted last month to restore the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program, it seemed that sanity had prevailed -- three years...
- Headcount Follies - June 4, 2009
- If you see the federal government as a benign force that seeks only to make your life better, then the questions in the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey...
- Murder in Wichita - June 2, 2009
- If law enforcement officials believe they can prove that Scott Roeder is guilty of Sunday's shooting death of abortion doctor George Tiller at the Reformation Lutheran...
- Empathy and Impartiality - May 28, 2009
- How will the GOP react to President Obama's pick to replace Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court? Who cares? It doesn't matter what Senate Republicans think of...
- The State of Civil Unions - May 27, 2009
- Within a decade, same-sex marriage probably will be legal in California. Thanks to the California Supreme Court 6-1 ruling on Tuesday to uphold Proposition 8, the law...
- A Naked Million - May 24, 2009
- In 1992, after he stopped wearing clothes to his UC Berkeley classes, Andrew Martinez was something of a walking only-in-Bezerkeley joke as the campus' own Naked Guy....
- No Home for Savage - May 21, 2009
- Britain's Parliament has been mired in a political scandal so damaging that Speaker Michael Martin resigned from office Tuesday. He's the first House speaker to step...
- Political War Vets - May 19, 2009
- Members of President Obama's Cabinet are three times more likely to have attended law school than boot camp. How things have changed since 2004, when Democrats were...
- Now the Lady Doth Protest Too Much - May 17, 2009
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued at a press conference Thursday that Republicans are focusing on how much she knew about CIA enhanced interrogation techniques in 2002...
- Kevin Cooper is Guilty - May 15, 2009
- Even when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals does the right thing -- as it did Monday in denying convicted killer Kevin Cooper a hearing on yet another of his dubious...
- To Edwards and Palin: Cork it - May 12, 2009
- Elizabeth Edwards always seemed like the yin -- a genuine human being -- to her smarmy husband's too-slick yang. No more. With the release of her memoir "Resilience" and...
- The Democrats' Dictionary - May 10, 2009
- Doublespeak is alive as Democrats pull the strings in the White House and Congress 24 years after 1984. What do they mean when they engage in Democrat-speak? I know I'm...
- Huge Crack in System of Drug Prosecution - May 7, 2009
- When Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act in 1986, proponents boasted that stiff mandatory minimum sentences would be bad news for major drug traffickers. Ha. Over...
- Yes on Five Out of Six Buddy Measures - May 3, 2009
- Critics of the five budget-stabilizing measures passed by the Legislature and Gov. Schwarzenegger and placed on California's May 19 special-election ballot are right...
- Pelosi's Tortured Explanation - April 30, 2009
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been pushing for a "truth commission" to investigate the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques like waterboarding -- until...
- The Opposite of Intelligence - April 28, 2009
- The mantra from the left during the Bush years went something like this: The world is not black and white. Sophisticated minds should seek out different, nuanced...
- More Than a Silly Strip Search - April 26, 2009
- When she was a 13-year-old student at Safford Middle School in Arizona, Savana Redding was strip-searched by school officials in search of -- this is no joke --...
- U.S. Foes Have Only Bad Lawyering to Fear - April 23, 2009
- After 9/11, Americans wanted one thing from Washington: to prevent future terrorist attacks. President George W. Bush, the CIA and other hard-working officials...
- GOP Heads on Sticks - April 21, 2009
- Republican politicians are afraid of their base. Very afraid. Press folks have categorized the April 15 TEA parties -- TEA for "Taxed Enough Already" -- as...
- Left Coast Tea Party - April 19, 2009
- Last Wednesday, conservatives held coast-to-coast "TEA parties" designed to send the message to Washington and state governments that the partiers feel "taxed enough...
- Homeland Insecurity - April 16, 2009
- On April 7, the Department of Homeland Security distributed a counterterrorism assessment to local law-enforcement types entitled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic...
- Some Get the Tea, Others Get the Bag - April 14, 2009
- In December 1773, Bostonians held a Tea Party in Boston Harbor to protest excessive British taxes. "No taxation without representation" was their message. On...
- Who Wants to Free Mumia Now? - April 12, 2009
- Call it progress. Being convicted for killing a police officer has lost the cachet it once had for the far left -- especially since Oakland just buried slain police...
- The Return of the Fuzzies - April 9, 2009
- Yet the Math Wars continue in California, as well as in New Jersey, Oregon and elsewhere. In Palo Alto, parent and former Bush education official Ze'ev...
- Lost and Found on Fringes of First Family - April 5, 2009
- What does that mean? Obama asked. As he wrote in his compelling memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Onyango answered, "Don't get lost" is a common expression:...
- Europe on the Cheap - April 2, 2009
- Now, with gasoline in the $2 per gallon range, Obama's brainstorm for a successful business model is to create "the next generation of clean cars." Get it: GM and...
- Pelosi on 'Un-American' Immigration Law - March 24, 2009
- In 2003, Pelosi accused ICE of "terrorizing" workers after agents raided a number of Wal-Mart stores for hiring and contracting undocumented janitors. By the...
- Congress, Overtax Thyself - March 22, 2009
- But as Americans keep discovering, bad can get worse. Witness the House bill that passed Thursday by a 328-93 vote to levy a 90 percent tax on bonuses for...
- Tree Sitter Is Not in Berkeley Anymore - March 19, 2009
- In June 2008, Anderson, who goes by the name "Cricket," was arrested and charged with trespassing and violating a court order -- and still he was able to...
- Obama on the Economy: Both Sides Now - March 17, 2009
- President Obama himself said last week, "If we are keeping focused on all the fundamentally sound aspects of our economy ... then we're going to get through...
- The Drug War Body Count - March 15, 2009
- Now, that baby step is big. They should have used the L-word, legalize, as decriminalizing drugs would leave trafficking and big profits under the control of...
- Richard Allen Davis: Safe on Death Row - March 12, 2009
- "Who would think it would take almost as long for this guy to get his hearing after he was sentenced to death than my daughter was on this Earth and she...
- Newsweek, Frum Fall for White House Spin - March 10, 2009
- Thus Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele called Limbaugh "ugly" and "incendiary." Not a smart move. Later Steele called Limbaugh to apologize - adding...